If you've ever hosted or attend a board games party, you might enjoy this essay by A. A. Milne about playing parlor games on a rainy day...

James Somers, writer of many fine stimulating blog posts and a nice recent profile of Douglas Hofstadter (titled " The Man Who Would Te...

While looking for a good word list to use for a project that I am working on, I discovered ENABLE (which stands for Enhanced North American ...

During my analysis of the effects of playing Boggle with different letter distributions , I simulated more than 50,000 games of standard 4-b...

I wanted to buy a copy of Boggle. This seemingly simple mission was complicated by the facts that a) there are different kinds of Boggle out...

Recently, I played a few rounds of Bananagrams. At the beginning of the last game, I flipped over my tiles and only had three vowels. As I c...

In England in the Middle Ages, the common practice of hunting led people to coin terms for groups of animals that were specific to each sort...